Palais Schaumberg and Thomas Fehlmann

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"In the late ’70s, Holger Hiller and Fehlmann formed Palais Schaumberg, soon to become one of the more innovative Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) bands. Their sound was danceable yet avant-garde, incorporating sharp rhythms with Fehlmann’s bouncy analogs and Hiller’s wound-up expressionist vocals. In one case, with both hands in harmony and dissonance, the varispeed tape vocal experiments and heralding, deflating synth horns on “Wir Bauen Ein Neue Stadt,” applauded and doubted the building of a new city."

I've only heard Fehlmann's stuff for Kompakt, and I like it a lot. Has anybody heard his early work? Is it worth seeking out?

― lf (lfam), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

palais schaumberg: c/d, s/d, ysi

― xhuxk, Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

also it's SCHAUMBURG ffs

― Yawn (Wintermute), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

don't forget his '90s work with the orb! it's strange how the dialogue seems to jump straight from palais schaumburg to his newer solo stuff on kompakt and the present-day version of the orb, with almost no mention of their really ravey years.

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean, he was a resident dj at tresor! i think that qualifies you for super-raver status, regardless of what you do before or after. and wasn't he buddies with westbam too?

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

actually saw fehlmann with alex paterson as the orb this weekend and it was freakin fantastic. fehlmann seemed to be holding the whole thing down - dj'ing killer minimal shit beforehand, then on laptop for the live set while paterson noodled around with samples and whatnot on turntables & cd decks...he really seemed to be the one holding it all together...

― something less threatening (heywood), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I think most people would agree that Fehlmann is supplying the quality to the Orb these days (although I think he took a sabbatical on "Bicycles & Tricycles.")

Also search out his work/mixes with Gudrun Gut. And of course 3MB's "Jazz is the Teacher!"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 20 March 2006 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link

The Schizophrenia 12" he did with Moritz Von Oswald of Basic Channel is great. Has anyone heard the Flowing album from '95?

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 20 March 2006 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link

don't forget his ingator (w. humpe) 12"'s on tresor as well... skyscratch was just as important as der klang der familie in it's time.

tresor, in general, deserves far more observance then it currently receives, just for the artists that cut their teeth there alone. they were one of the labels that kept me going through the dark times of techno hitting the mainstream with shit like sesame's treet and la style, and generally my favorite techno label.

3mb goes without saying!

the first palais schaumberg lp is definitely worh seeking out. the work after that first proper record is a bit naff at best in areas; i think it had something to do with holger hiller leaving. holger's first solo records were brilliant!

the readymade work is quite good as well...

― ehbenoit, Monday, 20 March 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

cosmic courier is so housey! i love it

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 26 January 2007 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i bet this is rajko mueller's favorite song

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 26 January 2007 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

just been listening to Honigpumpe for the first time in a decade probably. Wonderful album.

― calzino, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link

Saw them live a few weeks back. Some reunion thingy. Was fun.

― Duke, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link

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